I heard the price will either triple of quadruple. I heard this from my co-worker and not from any legitimate source, so take it with a grain of salt.

As for the success of Windows 8, I would be surprised if it's flopping. It's a pretty amazing OS. I have Vista on my home desktop, Windows 7 at work, and Windows 8 on my laptop. Windows 8 is the fastest of the three. And once you get used to it, it's actually a lot more user-friendly, believe it or not.

Windows 8 came out 74 days ago, and if it has sold 60 million licenses since release day, then that is 810,811 licenses/day, so your either (a) trolling, or (b) trolling. Please stop either (a) or (b) and let the OP ask his legit question.

Don't forget that many of those licenses were sold to OEM's in mass numbers for later production and are most likely not even activated yet so these numbers are a bit skewed. People are therefore buying new computers with it coming on them but be it they get a choice I'm sure many would opt to stay with Win7 considering its easier to stay with something that works and you already know.

This was for newly purchased laptops and desktops only. But on Windows 8 official launch day, Microsoft allowed anyone to obtain discount code which knocked down the price from $40 to $14-15 depending on your country.